The woman in the Austin airport gave us a perplexed look. “What ya’ll got in those big bags?” she asked in her thick Southern accent. Surfboards, of course. Texas isn’t known as a surfing hotspot, ...

TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Gabriel Medina is a competitive surfing machine. A jewellery-clad, helicopter-riding superstar, the Brazilian is a tattooed terminator who paddles faster, pulls ...